Karen Inouye: Faculty: Faculty + Staff: Department of History: Indiana University Bloomington

Karen Inouye

Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor and Director of Asian American Studies Program

kinouye@indiana.edu
(812) 855-7718
Ballantine Hall 543B

Campus: IU Bloomington

Full Biography

Dr. Inouye’s research addresses the histories of people of Japanese ancestry in both the United States and Canada, including histories before and after World War Two.

20th century U.S. History Citizenship and Belonging Empire and Colonialism Military History and Warfare Public History and Memory Race and Ethnicity State Violence and Human Displacement

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Canadian studies
Transnational American studies
Afterlife of wartime incarceration
Wartime prisons on Native land

Education

Ph.D., American Studies, Brown University

Publications

2024, Mary Kitagawa: A Nikkei Canadian Life, Stanford University Press.
2024, No Simple History: Nikkei Wartime Incarceration on Indigenous Land, Journal of Transnational American Studies, 15: 1, 72-95.
2018, “Excerpt from The Long Afterlife,” Journal of Transnational American Studies, 9(1), pp. 98-113.
2016, “Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century,” co-authored with Bret Rothstein, American Quarterly, June 2016, pp. 264-287.
2014, “Eternal Present: Retroactive Diplomas in Canada and the US,” Journal of Asian American Studies, October 2014, pp. 339-366.
2012, “Japanese American Wartime Experience: Tamotsu Shibutani and Methodological Innovation,” 1935 – 1978, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, pp. 318-338.
2011, “Viewing World War Two Internment through Emiko Omori’s Rabbit in the Moon,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 30:4, pp. 33-39 (invited essay).

Honors and Awards

Trustees Teaching Award, 2024
Visiting Scholar for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, CSREA, Brown Univeristy, Fall 2019
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) Research Grant, 2019-2020
College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) Research Fellowship, Fall 2017
New Frontiers in Creativity and Scholarship Research Fellowship, 2017-2018
College of Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) Research Travel Award, 2016
“Best of Social Sciences” Fellow, Spring 2017
Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2014, 2016, 2018
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) Research Grant, 2013-2014
New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship, 2012-2013